Chris Fortin is a Zen priest, a teacher in the Everyday Zen sangha, and a MFT psychotherapist and Spiritual Counselor. She is co-founder of Honoring the Path of the Warrior, a program under the fiscal sponsorship of San Francisco Zen Center offering retreats for returning veterans (www.HonoringThePath.org). She leads the women's Lotus Sangha in Sebastopol, the Everyday Zen Dialogue series, as well as retreats throughout the bay area and beyond.

Meg Alexander is a Zen priest in the Everyday Zen community of Norman Fischer. Meg has worked with families of children with cancer, with the Zen Hospice Project, and with Hospital Chaplaincy Services in Sonoma County. She has a sitting group in Healdsburg, CA.